Putting an image on a webpage is easy, audio files, not so much. HTML 5 will make it as easy as it should be, but until then, we have to resort to other methods. This screencast covers four methods/players. Two use both JavaScript and Flash, one just Flash, one just JavaScript.

This video focuses on taking an already existing idea and code and turning it into a jQuery plugin. In this case it helps keep our code as semantic as it can be, and with JavaScript off, degrades nicely. We cover the syntax of creating a plugin, show off the cool chain-ability of jQuery, and show...